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Happy Birthday to Hack Wordpress!

Thursday, October 2nd, 2008

I just now visited Unofficial WP School and found out that Hack Wordpress is celebrating its first birthday. Happy Birthday to Hack Wordpress!

You can find lot of Free themes on the internet. But if you want your blog to standout and be different than you should have a premium theme. It is like having a designer dress. One more advantage with premium theme is that, they come with support so you an figure out how to use it.

As a birthday celebration Hack WordPress is will give away premium theme. Wait!. It is for only those who win the contest.

Listed below is the prize list and the sponsors. To get a chance to win all you need to do is either comment on the official contest post or blog about it with links to the contest post, and you must also list the prizes with all the links intact. For a better chance at winning, do both!

Visit Hack Wordpress now, and enter for a chance to win a premium theme! Best of luck!

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02.10.2008 Blogging, Wordpress 13 Comments

CommentLuv Plugin is now Ajaxed – AjaxedCommentLuv has more exciting features

Thursday, September 25th, 2008
CommentLuv Wordpress Plugin

CommentLuv Wordpress Plugin

I am big fan of CommentLuv Wordpress plugin developed by Andy Bailey from FiddyP. I published a post few months back on How to get more comments and visitors by using CommentLuv Plugin.

I am using CommentLuv plugin on this wordpress blog from May 2008. Andy got so many inputs from the bloggers for improving CommentLuv plugin and his zeal made him to improve the plugin. This week he has released a new version of CommentLuv called AjaxCommentLuv.

From CommentLuv:

CommentLuv and AjaxCommentLuv enable you to reward your blog readers by leaving a titled link to their last post automatically whenever they comment thus encouraging more comments by more people on more posts!

It has been found to increase comments and traffic to blogs and their commentators. It currently runs as a Wordpress or Drupal plugin with a new AJAX version coming soon compatible with a wide range of blogs.

The previous version of commentluv used to grab the last post of the commentator. But new verison of commentluv will allow the commentator to select any one of his/her from last 10 posts.

If you register your site for free at CommentLuv.com you will be able to open up lots of features that are for members only like link tracking so you can see which of the comments you make on CommentLuv blogs are getting the last blog post clicked. Do NOT enter a number if you do not have one

Steps to setup CommentLuv Plugin : (skip step 2 to 4 if you don’t want to register your site)

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25.09.2008 Blogging, Wordpress 35 Comments

Broken Links Remover – A must Wordpress Plugin

Thursday, September 18th, 2008

Today, I will show you a very useful wordpress plugin that i discovered recently.

The name of this Wordpress plugin is Broken links Remover. Rajesh from TechBlissOnline has developed this great plugin. If you like this plugin you can vote for the plugin in the wordpress 2008 competition here

Broken Links Remover checks your posts for broken links. If it finds one then it will make that link as normal text so that your readers will not see any dead links.

This plugin will help keep your site clean by hiding all bad/broken links. As soon as it finds a bad or broken link, it will notify the link with appropriate post under Manage -> Bad Links Wordpress admin page. You can check below the snapshot of my blog, there are 5 pages of bad links. I have to go through all and correct it :(

Broken links Management page

Broken links Management page

Broken links are bad for your readers – Why?

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18.09.2008 Wordpress 19 Comments

5 Security Tips to Protect Wordpress Blog

Friday, July 25th, 2008
Protect your wordpress blog

Protect your wordpress blog

This website is running on Wordpress Platform from December 2007. But, i never thought of protecting my website. Luckily it was never hacked by anyone till date. Today, i came across a post mentioning Security tips to protect wordpress blog.

I followed some of the security tips.

5 Security Tips to protect Wordpress Blog

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  • Remove WordPress Version tag:
    By default lot of wordpress themes will have a Meta tag as below in Header.php:

    <meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" />

    The attacker can clearly find out what version of wordpress you are using. To avoid exposing of wordpress version, it is good to remove the above tag. You just open header.php file and look for the above code, delete the line and save it.

  • Hide plugin directory:
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25.07.2008 Security, TipsNTricks, Wordpress 15 Comments

Increase comments on your blog using SezWho

Friday, July 18th, 2008
Entrecard + SezWho=Increase readers and comments

Entrecard + SezWho = Increase readers and comments

I joined Entrecard community one month back. I can tell you one thing that more number of readers have engaged with my blog and are regularly commenting.

Yesterday, i found out that Entrecard has joined their hands with SezWho. Immediately i jumped to sezwho website to find about it.

Well its an another great service that you can add in your blog by installing their plug-in.

SezWho – Empower your community and drive traffic with Comments, Blog rating

After going through their website, i decided to install the SezWho plug-in on this wordpress blog.
With this plug-in, the commentators will be rewarded for their comments on this blog and becomes an incentive to comment more on my blog.

Benefits on commenting on my blog:
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18.07.2008 Blogging, Entrecard, Wordpress 23 Comments

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